Jake Newby

I think that Zhu Lu He Feng night is on July 17th, not June 17th. Also, Dead Vikings are at Yuyintang tonight as well and they have 1984 playing with Duck Fight Goose on the Saturday. Runaway Snail an...

“Sorry, your ethnic group can’t use the Internet.” No kidding. I just got back from two weeks in Xinjiang and the entire region is still under an internet blackout. All text messaging services have be...

Careful, I'm welling up......

oh, and 膨胀螺丝...

I think Five Pence, K.E. and October Capricorn have all withdrawn. More info on the withdrawals and some other criticisms the competition has faced here...

I notice that @shanghaidaily is still tweeting away incidentally and theirs does seem like a genuine account...

Oh, and if it really is the government doing it, do you reckon they're using the Falun Gong VPN thing?!...

Is that really them though? A quick search on Facebook brings up loads of results for people/groups calling themselves Shanghai World Expo 2010 - how do we know which (if any) are genuine?...

Ok, so the Guangzhou event was "tied" to the show and there is a relationship between the two, but it fell outside of the remit of your blog. Fair enough, that's your prerogative and if your blog is s...

I just tried to take another look at this, but couldn't get through. Has The Onion now been GFW'd?! If so, that's even more hilarious...

Yeah, it's a cool idea and a good line-up of people but "live music" it ain't. I'm especially intrigued by the Han Han (from Miniless) and Little Punk night on the 23rd, there should be some interest...

Thanks for your comment Super688. You're right, I should have mentioned that tonight's lot at YYT are mostly metal bands and that tomorrow night is more pop-punk. But, like i said, i encourage people ...

I'm not convinced the person in photo number 2 was playing along...

What, no eyes closed shot?...

For anyone who didn't make it to The Mushrooms, you missed a hell of a show. Check out the photos here (believe me, that link is well worth clicking)...